Termix vs Gantry

Termix is a fast SSH client for your phone and tablet. It works on its own with no server needed, and you can link your Termix servers to sync everything and use their plugins. No Server Needed Hosts, logins and snippets are saved on your phone in an encrypted database, and every connection goes straight from the phone. Export a backup locked with a passphrase whenever you like. SSH Terminal A fast native terminal with smooth scrolling, text selection, links and mouse support. Open many sessions in tabs you can rename, drag, swipe between and split. Pick from many themes and fonts, pinch to zoom, and set it all per host. Extra key rows for Ctrl, arrows, symbols and tmux, with your own keys per host. Find in the terminal, attach to tmux, fill passwords and sudo prompts, and search your command history. Sessions keep running in the background, tabs come back after the app is closed, and a dropped connection reconnects without losing what you typed. File Manager Browse, edit and move files over SFTP. Upload and download with pause and resume, share files in from other apps, edit code with syntax highlighting, preview files, and keep a files panel next to the terminal. Host Metrics CPU, memory, disk, network, uptime and processes, with history so you can see what changed. Docker Containers, logs, stats and compose stacks. Start, stop and restart, or open a shell inside a container. Services Manage systemd and OpenRC services and read the journal with live follow. SSH Tunnels Local, remote and dynamic forwards that can start on their own. Snippets Save commands with variables and folders, and run them on many hosts at once. Remote Desktop RDP, VNC and Telnet straight from your phone. Hosts Folders with drag to reorder, colors and icons, jump hosts, host defaults, Quick Connect, Wake-on-LAN and host status. Import hosts from an SSH config or Termix file, export them, or share one with a QR code. Make Ed25519 and ECDSA keys and convert PuTTY keys. Termix Servers Link one or more Termix servers and switch between them while your tabs keep running. Each server keeps an encrypted copy on your phone, synced both ways, so its hosts work offline too. Choose per host whether to connect from the phone or through the server. Sign in with SSO, TOTP or passkeys, even behind a reverse proxy like Cloudflare Access, Authelia or Authentik. Server plugins like Homepage, Alerts and Proxmox open right inside the app. Install a server at https://docs.termix.site/install Home and Widgets Home shows your open sessions, recent hosts and live cards for pinned hosts. Home screen widgets open a host, run a snippet or check metrics without opening the app. Tablets and Keyboards Split view, a sidebar on wide screens, foldable support, resizable windows, keyboard shortcuts and trackpad support. App Lock Lock the app with Face ID, Touch ID or fingerprint, with a PIN as backup, and hide it in the app switcher. Free and open source.

Gantry manages Docker containers from your iPhone or iPad. Point it at the Docker Engine API on a homelab server, a VPS or any Linux box you can reach over your network or Tailscale, then start, stop, inspect and troubleshoot containers without opening a laptop. CONTAINERS • See every container on the host (running, paused, restarting, created and exited), sorted by state and then by name, each with its image and status line. • Start, stop, restart, pause and unpause with one tap. Swipe a running container in the list to stop it. • Remove a stopped container after a confirmation; Gantry then returns you to the list. • The detail screen shows the image, container ID, started and finished times, published ports, mounts, environment variables (the first 20), and the command. • Copy Summary puts the key details on the clipboard as text. LIVE STATS While a container is running, Gantry reads its CPU and memory usage every 10 seconds and draws a chart of the last 30 readings, plus memory as a percentage of its limit. LIVE LOGS • Streams stdout and stderr, starting with the last 200 lines and following new output as it arrives. • ANSI color codes are stripped. Lines with errors, warnings or info messages are tinted so problems stand out. • Scroll up to pause, tap Resume to follow again, and clear the view. The screen keeps up to 2,000 lines. • Select text, or share the log as plain text through the share sheet. TERMINAL Run commands inside a running container with Docker exec (/bin/sh -c). Quick chips run common checks: ps aux, ls /, env, df -h, uname -a, id, /etc/os-release, free -m, open ports and top. Output keeps its indentation, so columns from ps and ls -l line up. PROCESSES A docker top table of every process in the container, with columns you can scroll sideways. IMAGES Browse the host's images by tag, short ID, size and age, with the image count and total size at the top. Swipe to remove an image after a confirmation. HOSTS • Add as many Docker hosts as you like: a name, an address or hostname, and a port (2375 for plain HTTP, 2376 when TLS is on). • Test Connection negotiates the Docker API version and pings the daemon before you can save. • The host list shows each host's response time and Docker Engine version. Tap a host to make it active; swipe to delete it. WHAT GANTRY DOES NOT DO • No SSH. Gantry talks only to the Docker Engine API over HTTP or HTTPS. • No client certificates, so Docker's usual tlsverify setup on port 2376 won't connect. HTTPS works through an endpoint, such as a reverse proxy, whose certificate your device already trusts. Self-signed certificates are not accepted. • No username, password or token login. • It doesn't create, run, pull or build containers or images, and has no Compose, Swarm or Kubernetes support. • The terminal is not an interactive shell. Each command runs on its own, so cd doesn't carry over and full-screen programs like vim won't work. • No alerts or background monitoring. Stats and logs update only while their screen is open. • It doesn't edit a container's settings or environment. SETUP The Docker daemon must listen on a TCP port that your device can reach. Plain HTTP on port 2375 is unencrypted and has no login, so keep it off the public internet. We recommend binding it to a private network such as Tailscale. PRIVACY Gantry has no account, no ads and no analytics. It connects only to the Docker hosts you add, directly from your device. Your host list (names, addresses, ports and TLS setting) is stored on the device and is set up to sync through your private iCloud database when you're signed in to iCloud. Nothing is sent to us. Email and X feedback open only when you tap them. PRICE Gantry is a one-time purchase. There are no in-app purchases and no subscription. Made by SHYGUY LLC.